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Meetings, i§§3. 



the published lists of Guernsey plants ; and hopes are enter- 

 tained that in a few seasons the Society may be able to exhibit 

 herbarium specimens of all these plants corresponding with a 

 corrected list. 



Special meetings were arranged for the second Tuesday 

 in each month, when papers were to be read on particular 

 subjects set down for discussion. Three such papers have been 

 read, one on the ferns of Guernsey by Mr. Derrick, another on 

 the butterflies of Guernsey and Sark, by Mr. W. A. Luff, and a 

 third by Mr. Adolphus Collenette, f.m.s., on the occurrence of 

 carbonate of lime in Guernsey ; each paper was illustrated by 

 numerous specimens, and gave rise to an interesting conver- 

 sation, and contained valuable information which would be 

 worth preserving in a permanent form, could such papers be 

 regularly produced during the winter, an abstract of them 

 might be printed, and much valuable information collected 

 and preserved. 



During the summer months instead of meeting in the hall, 

 members have on various occasions made excursions into the 

 country districts, sometimes to search for specimens, at others 

 to examine the physical features of special localities, as at the 

 Jaonnee, Capelles, L'Ancresse, etc. These excursions proved 

 specially interesting and instructive ; we should be pleased to 

 see them more frequently organized, and more largely attended. 

 The Society has been presented with collections of plants and 

 minerals by Dr. Hoskins, Mr. Paint, Mr. .Robert and others. 

 Such donations seem to point to the necessity of room for their 

 reception, and would, if encouraged undoubtedly increase 

 into an island museum, but without much larger funds it 

 would be impossible for this Society to undertake the forma- 

 tion and care of this, — so much needed and useful an institu- 

 tion. 



At the commencement of the second year, the committee 

 appeal to the members to continue the support of the Society 



